Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian news sources report of heavy police presence throughout Tehran and other major cities such as Isfahan and Tabriz, following release of the names of qualified presidential candidates by the Iranian Interior Ministry, today.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian authorities announced the names of eight candidates, qualified to run for the post of Islamic Republic’s president, Tuesday evening, said the state-run Fars News website.
SF News – A light detection technology that uses laser light sent downward from a slow moving plane to capture pictures of the rainforest under vegetation, revealed images of a possible lost city deep inside the Honduran rainforests. The images of the city show canals, roads, building foundations and agricultural land in the surrounding.
AFP – Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month’s presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts say.
Stop Fundamentalism – An Iraqi parliament committee revealed the involvement of high ranking officials in the import of fake and nonfunctional bomb and explosive detection equipment over six years ago, Aljazeera TV reported yesterday. That report came after a British court sentenced a businessman to 15 years in prison for exporting of the equipment to Iraq.
Fox News – Einstein’s special relativity has proven more useful than ever, as scientists have now used it to discover an alien planet around another star.
Stop Fundamentalism – A 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit Iranian southern city of Kaki Monday, 60 miles away from Bushehr nuclear plant near Persian Gulf.
Reuters – A group of bipartisan U.S. senators introduced legislation on Wednesday that aims to block Iran’s access to billions of dollars worth of foreign currency reserves, in the latest step by Congress to try to slow the Islamic Republic’s disputed nuclear program.
Stop Fundamentalism –An Iranian US-made F-5 fighter jet crashed and exploded in the South-west Mountains of Iran killing two crewmen onboard, Iranian officials announced Sunday.
SF News – Stars live shorter than ordinary people, says a study done of obituaries in US newspapers.
